PRECIOUS RELIC
STOLEN FROM MUSEUM IN SWEDEN GOLD ORNAMENT OF YEAR 400. INSCRIPTION IN RUNIC ALPHABET. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) STOCKHOLM, December 28. Sweden’s most precious antique, the Vadstena Braktea, a golden ornament dating from the year 400, has been Stolen from thb Royal Historical Museum.
Il is valued at £20,000 and was dug up in 1587 at Vadstena, 'where Saint Brigitta founded a convent., It is unique because it is the only ornament of its kind with an inscription in the runic alphabet.
It was removed overnight from the museum’s safe, which is undamaged.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1938, Page 6
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